The headscarf effort, says Mr. Karaman, along with the arrest of his boss and scores of others, has exposed what he calls the governing party's hidden agenda -- a plan to turn Turkey into an Islamic theocracy.

Gautam: Yes, I am sure that families do take advantage of such formula structures but we have truly gained from that and then we also have what we call the governing owners council where we have two external people, two very wise people external people who has been helping us and guiding us, Subhaya and Gurumurti.